Re: administration of initscripts

[Thilo Six <T.Six@gmx.de>]

Hello


Excerpt from Roger Leigh:


-- <snip> --
> update-rc.d foo disable|enable
> 
> is one method.
-- <snip> --

i did played further around with this. First have a look at this:


# find /etc/rc[S0-6].d/ -iname '*mountkernfs.sh*'
/etc/rcS.d/S01mountkernfs.sh

# update-rc.d mountkernfs.sh disable
update-rc.d: using dependency based boot sequencing
insserv: warning: current start runlevel(s) (empty) of script `mountkernfs.sh'
overrides LSB defaults (S).
insserv: warning: current stop runlevel(s) (S) of script `mountkernfs.sh'
overrides LSB defaults (empty).

# find /etc/rc[S0-6].d/ -iname '*mountkernfs.sh*'
/etc/rcS.d/K01mountkernfs.sh


As you can see update-rc.d complains, but only that the initscript defaults are
getting overwritten. Now look at this:


# find /etc/rc[S0-6].d/ -iname '*mountkernfs.sh*'
/etc/rcS.d/S01mountkernfs.sh

# rc-update del mountkernfs.sh
insserv: Service mountkernfs has to be enabled to start service udev
insserv: Service mountkernfs has to be enabled to start service keyboard-setup
insserv: Service mountkernfs has to be enabled to start service mountdevsubfs
insserv: Service mountkernfs has to be enabled to start service networking
insserv: Service mountkernfs has to be enabled to start service procps
insserv: exiting now!

# find /etc/rc[S0-6].d/ -iname '*mountkernfs.sh*'
/etc/rc1.d/K01mountkernfs.sh



insserv clearly complains instead that other services are affected by this
change. Generally to a admin insserv seems to be nicer API over update-rc.d to
me. Apart from that, by this i found a major bug in rc-update(). Will fix that.

-- 
Regards,
Thilo

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